Improvement in trace-carriers



NITED STATES PATENT IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,322, dated August 3, 1875; application filed May 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WVILLIAM H. TOWNSEND, of Goodland, Newton county, Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Trace-Carrier, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a top View, with parts out off, of my improved trace-carrier; and Fig. 2, a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Myinvention is an improvement in the class of trace-carriers provided with pivoted springarms, by means of which the trace-chains may he conveniently attached and detached, as oocasion requires.

The improvement relates to the construction of the frame of the carrier, and arrangement of the pairs of rigid and pivoted springarms, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing, A represents a frame of suitable size .and material, to which the back and hip straps are permanently applied, one strap extending from each side of the frame. A lateral bridge part, B, parallel and near the front side of the frame, carries the pivoted spring-snaps (J, which fit in the usual manner on the inclined ends of the rigid arms D that extend from the rear corners of the frame in nearly diagonal direction toward the bridge part. They serve for the purpose of carrying the trace-connecting straps, whose rings are readily introduced to the diagonal arms by the spring-snaps of the same, and securely retained by the arms until detached by releasing the spring-snap connection. The traceconnecting straps are in this manner quickly applied and taken off, and thereby a very 

